What is the purpose of a protective sweep? What are the normal boundaries of a protective sweep? When may police extend the boundaries of a protective sweep? What is the intensity of a protective sweep?

What would be an ideal response?

A ''protective sweep'' of the entire premises (including an arrestee's home) may be undertaken on less than probable cause if officers have a ''reasonable belief,'' based on ''articulable facts,'' that the area to be swept may harbor an individual posing a danger to those on the arrest scene. A reasonable suspicion must exist for such a sweep to be justified. No justification is required after arrest, but reasonable suspicion is required to engage in a sweep up to the point of the arrest. If a person is arrested outside his house, office, or other premises protected by the Fourth Amendment, he cannot be taken to those premises for a search of them incidental to arrest. If the officer deliberately delays an arrest until the person is in his house or other premises, for the purpose of making an incidental search of those premises, the search is unreasonable, but not if the purpose of the delay is to make the arrest more securely and safely. If the officers find the person to be arrested outside the premises, and by fraud or deceit lure him into the premises and make the arrest there, so that a search of the premises can be made, the search is unreasonable.

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